Dr. Orna Izakson
@orna.bsky.social
Climate, polycrisis, mental health, functional medicine, 🌱🌲🌻🌼. Pro-science licensed naturopathic dr (OR/AK), herbalist, ex environmental journalist. Love 🥾and 📷 wild places. 💔 about 🌎. 1st-gen US, 🇮🇱 fam. Born 320ppm. #Angret. She/her/doctor.
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Dr. Orna Izakson
@orna.bsky.social
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"Decades of ignoring scientists, persecuting activists and greenlighting corrupt development schemes have triggered a water crisis so severe that President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in November that Tehran’s residents may eventually have to evacuate the capital city..."
Iran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down.
As protests spread across Iran, experts say decades of environmental mismanagement and repression of scientists and environmental activists are driving the unrest.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...
As protests spread across Iran, experts say decades of environmental mismanagement and repression of scientists and environmental activists are driving the unrest.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...
Iran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down. - Inside Climate News
Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country.
insideclimatenews.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:02 AM
"Decades of ignoring scientists, persecuting activists and greenlighting corrupt development schemes have triggered a water crisis so severe that President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in November that Tehran’s residents may eventually have to evacuate the capital city..."
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The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
And send a fully armed battalion to remind you of our love.
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We represent the Lollipop Guild
The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop Guild
We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face
The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop Guild
We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 AM
And send a fully armed battalion to remind you of our love.
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This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 AM
This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.
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Look, if you want to know what Americans could do that Germans at the end of Weimar didn't do, opposing ICE everywhere they're operating and emphasizing how much the majority doesn't want them to do what they're doing is a great example of doing better.
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Look, if you want to know what Americans could do that Germans at the end of Weimar didn't do, opposing ICE everywhere they're operating and emphasizing how much the majority doesn't want them to do what they're doing is a great example of doing better.
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Also...
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Also...
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
DHS ICE memo 1-21-26
www.documentcloud.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
erictopol.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
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NYT Ed Board: One year ago, Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself.
A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.
A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
NYT Ed Board: One year ago, Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself.
A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.
A review by the editorial board shows that Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1,408,500,000.
Why do they hate Minnesota so much?
We are saddened to share that the House just voted to revoke a mining ban across 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest, including the watershed of Minnesota's #BoundaryWaters.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Why do they hate Minnesota so much?
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This declaration from WaPo journalist Hannah Natanson describing what the FBI took is utterly devastating.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
This declaration from WaPo journalist Hannah Natanson describing what the FBI took is utterly devastating.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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NEW: Hours after the Washington Post demanded the government return reporter Hannah Natanson’s devices, a judge has blocked the government from searching them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Post reporter
The Post demanded in a court filing Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:15 PM
NEW: Hours after the Washington Post demanded the government return reporter Hannah Natanson’s devices, a judge has blocked the government from searching them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
You *do not* mess with Mainers.
Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests: “Operation Catch of the Day”
Given that they undoubtedly knew the level of scrutiny, this would be subjected to, the choice of name is deliberately disrespectful to human beings. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Given that they undoubtedly knew the level of scrutiny, this would be subjected to, the choice of name is deliberately disrespectful to human beings. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests
“Everyone is on high alert,” Portland Mayor Mark Dion said. His city and nearby Lewiston have seen an influx of migrants and asylum seekers in recent years.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
You *do not* mess with Mainers.
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The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Exclusive: The Pentagon has ordered active-duty military police soldiers based in North Carolina to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
At least a few hundred soldiers are being prepared for the possible mobilization to Minneapolis.
At least a few hundred soldiers are being prepared for the possible mobilization to Minneapolis.
Pentagon orders more active-duty soldiers to ready for possible Minneapolis deployment
The department has issued a ready to deploy order for a Army military police brigade stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
www.ms.now
January 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Exclusive: The Pentagon has ordered active-duty military police soldiers based in North Carolina to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
At least a few hundred soldiers are being prepared for the possible mobilization to Minneapolis.
At least a few hundred soldiers are being prepared for the possible mobilization to Minneapolis.
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I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
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This is bad as both policy and practice.
Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section.
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
(Published Oct. 2025)
She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
(Published Oct. 2025)
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
This is bad as both policy and practice.
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“She was so anemic and hungry that she resorted to eating clay, digging out the top layer of earth to get to the cleaner soil below, and charcoal. Her chart showed she gained fewer than 10 pounds during her entire pregnancy. Her baby, Nuru, was born at 33 weeks, weighing about 3.5 pounds.”
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
“She was so anemic and hungry that she resorted to eating clay, digging out the top layer of earth to get to the cleaner soil below, and charcoal. Her chart showed she gained fewer than 10 pounds during her entire pregnancy. Her baby, Nuru, was born at 33 weeks, weighing about 3.5 pounds.”
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Expected this, given the makeup of the 8th Circuit. I've been wondering if this is why Trump chose Minneapolis, actually. Blue governor, blue mayor, in a conservative circuit.
NEW:
Ugh, the 8th Circuit grants DHS’s motion for an administrative stay pending appeal.
That means the TRO granted against DHS by Judge Menendez last week is on hold.
Ugh, the 8th Circuit grants DHS’s motion for an administrative stay pending appeal.
That means the TRO granted against DHS by Judge Menendez last week is on hold.
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Expected this, given the makeup of the 8th Circuit. I've been wondering if this is why Trump chose Minneapolis, actually. Blue governor, blue mayor, in a conservative circuit.
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Big flag: Trump says "people will soon be prosecuted" for their roles in the 2020 election. He says the election was "rigged." It was not rigged. But his threat should be taken seriously.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Big flag: Trump says "people will soon be prosecuted" for their roles in the 2020 election. He says the election was "rigged." It was not rigged. But his threat should be taken seriously.
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Low rent late stage George III/Caligula mashup
President Trump says he decided to levy a 39% tariff on Swiss exports because Helene Budliger Artieda, director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, “just rubbed me the wrong way.”
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Low rent late stage George III/Caligula mashup